Item 05: Archie Barwick diary, 3 September-3 October 1916 - Page 125
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[Page 125]
pretty dangerously & you are shot at from all sides for we are in a big salient & of a night time flares appear to be going up all around you, & you would think you were surrounded.
I have had a party of men building a big dugout all the morning & we have made a good job of it.
3rd. Big top boots are all the rage to-day for the trenches are swimning in water & there is a foot of sloppy mud everywhere especially in our "communication trench" & "Hedgerow" it has been drizzling all the morning & things as you may guess are in an awful state, but the big rubber boots which reach to our thighs are waterproof so we can paddle away to our hearts
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